[asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:17:46PM -0800, Michael Higgins wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:44:12 -0700
> "Wilton Helm" <whelm at compuserve.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm in the same boat and have been looking at this for several
> > months, but haven't actually jumped in, hands-on, yet.  No, I don't
> > think the situation is as dismal as you paint it, although the lack
> > of appropriate marketing for BRI in the US has all but killed it
> > here, making it relatively unattractive to vendors. 
> 
> Right. This is what I've come to understand from the archives.
> 
> > I have been
> > advised of several cards that support it, but they were two or four
> > port cards that were serious overkill for my application, and
> 
> I haven't found ONE card that supports it, so maybe we could compare notes?

It also depends on the level of support you expect of the card. E.g. in
the case of Zaptel, the card driver and Zaptel provide low-level (layer
1) support, and libpri has most of the logic for the higher level layer
2 and layer 3.

> At any rate, if you could send along some info about cards that are 
> purported to work here, I'd *really* appreciate it. '-)

As you can see from http://quadbri.phoniceq.com/ , this card is based on
the Cologne HFC-4S chip, which is like the Junghanns, the Bero.net, the
Openvox clones and Digium cards use (though the latter have some nice
extra toys such as the on-board EC). The Xorcom BRI module uses a very
similar chip. The cheap single-span HFC cards use the HFC-S chipset
which is not *that* different.

http://quadbri.phoniceq.com/driver/README claims that the card works.
Hence aparantly layer 1 works there. Hence there is a very good chance
all of those other devices work as well.

-- 
               Tzafrir Cohen
icq#16849755              jabber:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
+972-50-7952406           mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
http://www.xorcom.com  iax:guest at local.xorcom.com/tzafrir